Alleyn's School
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Alleyn's School is an independent co-educational day school situated in Dulwich, South-East London.
It is part of a foundation which includes James Allen's Girls' School (JAGS) and Dulwich College.
History
Edward Alleyn was a prosperous Elizabethan actor manager whose Rose Theatre and Fortune Theatre rivalled Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. In 1619 he established his College of God's Gift. Together with Dulwich College and James Allen's Girls' School, Alleyn's School is a direct descendant of Edward Alleyn's original foundation and was established as a boys' school in 1882. Alleyn's became a public school with the election of the Headmaster to the Headmasters' Conference (HMC) in 1919. It was a Direct Grant School from 1958 until the abolition of that status in 1975. The Governors then opted for outright independence and co-education.
In 1992 a Junior School was opened for 200 boys and girls aged from 4 to 10.
The school now has a large Combined Cadet Force section, and runs a sucessful Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme. Alleyn's School owns a field centre in Derbyshire.
Notable alumni
- Sir Frederick Keeble (1870–1952), Sherardian Professor of Botany, University of Oxford, 1920–1927, Scientific Adviser to ICI, 1927–1938, and Fullerian Professor, Royal Institution, 1938–1941
- James Bolivar Manson (1879–1945), painter and Director, Tate Gallery, 1930–1938
- Arthur Watson (1880–1969), Editor, Daily Telegraph, 1924–1950
- Arthur Ewins (1882–1957), chemist
- Alexander Glenny (1882–1965), immunologist
- C. S. Forester (1899–1966), novelist
- Sir Harold Bishop (1900–1983), Director of Technical Services/Engineering, BBC, 1952–1963
- Sir V. S. Pritchett (1900–1997), writer and critic
- Harry Guntrip (1901–1975), psychotherapist and Congregational minister
- Henry Cotton (1907–1987), golfer
- Sir Ronald Leach (1907–1996), Senior Partner, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.
- Sir Frank Young (1908–1988), biochemist and first Master of Darwin College, Cambridge, 1964–1976
- R. V. Jones (1911–1997), physicist, scientific intelligence expert, and Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, 1946–1981
- Sir Joe Hooper (1914–1994), Director, Government Communications Headquarters, 1965–1973, and Government Intelligence Co-ordinator, 1973–1978
- Stuart Blanch, Baron Blanch (1918–1994), Bishop of Liverpool, 1966–1975, and Archbishop of York, 1975–1983
- Mickey Stewart (born 1933), cricketer
- Julian Glover (born 1935), actor
- Simon Ward (born 1941), actor
- Samuel West (born 1966), actor
- Ed Simons (born 1970), musician
- Jude Law (born 1972), actor
- Ajay Kakkar, Professor of Surgical Science, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London
- John E. G. McCarthy, Professor of Biomolecular Science, University of Manchester
- John Isaacs, Professor of Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Mike Merrifield, Professor of Astronomy, University of Nottingham
